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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Buzap Buzap <buzap@gmx.net> wrote: > Hey Per > > thanks for the details. > >> When these two crap out on me I will go for some USB powered >> button pad thing that also has analog inputs for simple foot switches >> and expression pedals. > Is there actually anything like that out there??? No, not yet. > Having an (optional) expression pedal would be so cool... Indeed! And because "it would be so cool" I bet someone will manufacture it! > I'm still thinking about this 1-pedal thing. You know, at the moment, I >count 20 pedal buttons on my floor and I usually use a dozen of them >while looping. So, call me a bit biased ;-)) > Nevertheless some thoughts: > Couldn't you work it out like this: > - Have your footpedal always trigger a MIDI CC with the number retrieved >from a variable > - Incidentally, pressing the footpedal once will increase the variable+1 > - So next time you press it, it wil trigger the next MIDI CC (whatever >you assign to it) > - Have your Faderbox buttons assign specific values to that variable > Example: > 1. Press Faderfox button A => Assigns variable="12" > 2. Press foot pedal => sends a MIDI CC 12 and sets variable++="13" > 3. Press foot pedal again => sends a MIDI CC 13 and sets variable="14"... > 4. Press Faderfox button B => Assigns variable="30" > 5. Press foot pedal => sends a MIDI CC 30 and sets variable="31" Yes, that's exactly what I built with Bidule the other day ;-) > Another option would be actually to have some buttons that you can very >quickly access (i.e. while playing the guitar). > So you would train these double-moves of rapidly pressing a key manually >and then stomping the footpedal. > Something like the Akai MPC buttons or a 25-key midi keyboard would work >well for that I could imagine. Yes, that's my intention. > While I'm at it: > What do you really need a footpedal for, really? Personally, I mostly >sync everything to the first cycle. So the only things time critical that >a footpedal would need to trigger would be: > - Begin of first loop > - End of first loop > - End of a multiply (i.e. when both hands are occupied) > Anthing else could be easily triggered manually when set to switching at >loop/cycle end, I guess. Interesting.... I need a foot pedal for two reasons. First, I like to use some functions that are not quantized; as "overdub dots" or mocking with pitch and rate of a loop while playing and overdubbing into it. Second, guitar is fine playing one handed by hammer-ons and pull-offs, but wind and reed instruments lose half the note span if played one handed. -- Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) www.myspace.com/perboysen